' Poo Hoo bor wah, Poo wah bor hoo' is a saying Loom Por Chah would often use in Lao, which was his native language. I'll put the translation underneath.'The One who Knows doesn't say. The one who says, doesn't know.'

Cittasanto wrote:Ajahn Sumedho uses this "one who knows" quite a lot and I believe he uses it in the same context of other Thai Ajahns, and I understood it to mean the "knowing of what is" everyone has, such as "their is pain" similar to noting in Mahasi circles.

Cittasanto wrote:Ajahn Sumedho uses this "one who knows" quite a lot and I believe he uses it in the same context of other Thai Ajahns, and I understood it to mean the "knowing of what is" everyone has, such as "their is pain" similar to noting in Mahasi circles.

I think you have misunderstood.

care to elaborate?

This offering maybe right, or wrong, but it is one, the other, both, or neither!Blog,-Some Suttas Translated,Ajahn Chah."Others will misconstrue reality due to their personal perspectives, doggedly holding onto and not easily discarding them; We shall not misconstrue reality due to our own personal perspectives, nor doggedly holding onto them, but will discard them easily. This effacement shall be done."

Cittasanto wrote:Ajahn Sumedho uses this "one who knows" quite a lot and I believe he uses it in the same context of other Thai Ajahns, and I understood it to mean the "knowing of what is" everyone has, such as "their is pain" similar to noting in Mahasi circles.

I did say similar not the same as. I was pointing to a similar level of cognition.

This offering maybe right, or wrong, but it is one, the other, both, or neither!Blog,-Some Suttas Translated,Ajahn Chah."Others will misconstrue reality due to their personal perspectives, doggedly holding onto and not easily discarding them; We shall not misconstrue reality due to our own personal perspectives, nor doggedly holding onto them, but will discard them easily. This effacement shall be done."

To learn more about Poo Roo, or Poo Hoo and how Loom Por taught it have a good read of his "Collected Teachings". I fortunately had first hand experience with him. It really isn't so complicated and no need to think about it too much. It is a platform, an observation point in our meditation reached when sati (mindfulness of mind) and sampajanna (mindfulness of body) come together as total awareness from where you can watch the whole performance of mind.